Sentence examples for or rebuffed from inspiring English sources

Any attempt to report abuse to senior officers was ignored or rebuffed.

Independent labels have given voice to music otherwise ignored or rebuffed by the major labels.

Requests for certain documents and testimonies were ignored or rebuffed, they said.

Only now, after this disastrous spill, are we learning how even when the agency's regulators tried to do their jobs they were repeatedly rolled or rebuffed by industry.

The announcement ends a frustrating 16-month search in which at least a half-dozen candidates said they had either turned down offers or rebuffed overtures.

He courted these men with unforced admiration, a genuine modesty and a slightly morbid enjoyment of being put down or rebuffed.

There is plenty of practical advice, too, on topics ranging from what to post and when to engage, confer or rebuff, to how to decide what might be unethical or T.M.I. (Answer: "Can you say it aloud in a full hospital elevator?") The book is an excellent and helpful resource.

Don't be a snob, because Carly never looks down on other individuals and view them as inferior, and doesn't rudely ignore or rebuff other people and isn't arrogant or condescending towards others.

Cautious businesses are either unwilling to borrow or still rebuffed.

The suspicion is that the producers either didn't dare ask Bennett, or were rebuffed.

Even if a country decides in the end not to join the Union, or is rebuffed, it will have had five years of institution-building and policy-anchoring.